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Sean Cronin missed out on the Ireland squad entirely this month, with Schmidt giving James Tracy and Rob Herring the chance to stake their claim as Rory Best’s understudy.

The Leinster hooker has won 56-caps and is well known to Schmidt, and Fogarty has backed him to take the disappointment and channel it in the correct way over the next month.

“It creates an edge, certainly in his mind, an extra edge,” Fogarty said.

“When you get left out, being the competitor he is, there’s going to be another edge to because you want to prove your worth every time you play.

“Those two players feel there’s more in them and rightly so they’ll go to work. Sean has been excellent, unbelievably good over the last couple of weeks. He showed an initial bit of disappointment not to be in that camp, but christ he has worked really hard to improve every part of his game. You can see him doing extra bits after sessions.

“He’s showing that edge midweek which is where you want players to be showing it. I think Jack is going to follow the same route.”